The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Release Plugin, version 2.5.2.

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work. Releasing a project is made in two steps: prepare and perform.

You should specify the version in your project’s plugin configuration:

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<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>2.5.2</version>
</plugin>

Release Notes – Maven Release Plugin – Version 2.5.2

Bugs:

• MRELEASE-555 – update versions does not update intermodule dependencies
• MRELEASE-611 – The update-versions goal fails when project is not at a SNAPSHOT version
• MRELEASE-834 – release:prepare fails when a system property starting with dependency is given
• MRELEASE-871 – Release Tag wrongly created when invoked pom.xml path contains a ‘.’
• MRELEASE-879 – Custom toolchain configuration is not passed to forked Maven executions
• MRELEASE-892 – -Darguments doesn’t allow -B to be passed to underlying maven executions
• MRELEASE-902 – release:prepare fails on Windows since Maven-3.3.x

Improvements:

• MRELEASE-552 – Add useEditMode option to release:update-versions
• MRELEASE-874 – Improve doc about specifying version of plugin could sometimes be required on command-line

New Feature:

• MRELEASE-901 – Goal stage should take parameter localCheckout as well.

Tasks:

• MRELEASE-903 – Update maven-shared-invoker to 2.2
• MRELEASE-906 – Upgrade to SCM 1.9.4

Enjoy,

-The Apache Maven team